Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 76 | Notre Dame is on FIRE | Guest: Chad Robichaux

Episode Date: April 15, 2019

The church is burning! Notre Dame is on FIRE and Jeffy brings you the latest and a little of crime done wrong. Also Chad Robichaux drop in during the water cooler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts, which we are about to receive from thy bounty. No, we're not eating. What are we not? What am I saying? The dinner prayer. God, God, God, God. Mother's Son, only ghost. Notre Dame burning down.

Because it's Notre Dame. Notre Dame is the school in South Bend, Indiana. I got it. But smoke is billowing. As we record this podcast today, smoke is billowing from the church. I don't think that's. the way there's a get a pope. Tell Paris.

All Parisians, please evacuate the city. All Parisians evacuate the city. Or at least a couple of blocks away from around the church. I mean, even Donald Trump, our president, has tweeted about this afternoon. So horrible to watch a massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out.

Must act quickly. Hey, maybe instead of worrying about canceling your speech, Macroon. How about you dump some water on that fire, pal? I mean, the tower, the spire, the spire, just fell down. I mean, it's bad. Goodbye to that church. Do we get the guy from up there? Yeah, the hunchback.

Did we get him out? Is that where he's at? Quasimoto, is that the one where he's at in Paris? I hope so. But they've already said no reported deaths, so I hope we did. Father, son, Holy Spirit. It's bad. Macaron, okay, give a speech now the church is on fire.

Hey, how about dump some buckets of water on it? Where to begin? Where, where, where to be begin? Well, as long as we're talking about dumping water on things. Let's talk about Dubai International Airport. I want to interrupt here. Do you think you're George Norrie or something? Just let the whole bad play.

Yes. So George just lets it go. I could go. George is syndicated around the country around the world. Only have 44 seconds. Oh, George's got more than that. George has no way leaves like it leaves an hour before his show actually ends and just lets the music go. The ending theme song with the wood flutes, that goes forever, man.

Do I need to get more audio? Yes, I want wood flutes. I want wood flutes just so that if I feel like stretching and I just let it go. Let the wood flutes go. Because it's got a time. See, the thing, the difference is, my friend. is George is working on a radio clock. I'm working on a podcast clock.

I can go short, go long, whatever. So it's not, it's not, you're not locked in to that radio clock. Duh. So George locks into the radio clock, comes back from the last break, starts the out music. And we're back. Welcome to the final half hour. We're talking to someone about space wars. And we're going to be talking about, I want you to come and see me.

I'm on tour. I'm going to be in Florida sometime in the summer. Come and see me. Buy tickets. soon and let the music play and we're going to let it go because oh look I'm up against the clock we've got to go thanks for coming on the show tonight

this is our bell though this isn't George George George would roll over he would be pissed if you started playing this for George Norrie yeah he'd be really he'd be really mad because that's art's music man oh it killed him to say nice things about art after he died let alone now it won't be bad

don't get me on George don't why did you do why'd you get me started on George because you've been talking about him the entire time we've been off air well you started with the coast to coast off and then i noticed the voice guy changed i noticed that he doesn't have the he doesn't have the same voice guy that coast to coast had forever the guy that coast to coast yeah they've got some other guy which is fine he's a okay voice not even as good as me really but he's okay and uh but the the guy that did it forever now i think does the red eye radio show right overnight's red eye which is two different

companies so apparently see for me I don't care about that the voice guy should be able to do what he wants if he wants to do coast to coast and red eye go who cares it's his voice he should be if I'm driving across the country overnight and I go hey I don't think I'll lose coast to coast now I'll listen to Red Eye for a little bit

are they using the same voice guy how dare they nobody thinks that nobody except for maybe one person at premiere and one person at Cumulus I wouldn't be how dare they though I would think are they using the same voice guy?

What are they doing? And there used to be a guy as long as long as long as voice guys, which had me talking earlier, there used to be a voice guy that used to carry his man unit around in a wheelbarrow that did the NASCAR Today updates because even NASCAR today,

man, we got to find some of his voice work because he was great. Man, his voice was really low. By the way, speaking of the new Pope, people are not liking that joke on Twitter. What do you mean? The smoke joke? Oh,

well, stop it. I mean, everybody knows A, the smoke that they blow for the Pope happens in Italy, not Paris. Duh. A whole different country. Yeah. And Catholics are smart enough to know that, right?

People are saying this in poor taste. Oh, is it? Is it? Why? We can't joke about it. Nobody's hurt. It's just the church that's burning. I know it's a famous, you know,

the famous great Notre Dame and Paris, I got it. And nobody wants churches burned. Mostly. Maybe some people on the planet that want some churches burned, but I'm not one of them. What if this comes back as a terrorist attack? Don't start.

It's not. They're remodeling. It had something happen. It caught on fire. I don't think that's how you remodel either. It is how you clean it out, though. Yeah, you clean it out like this. Yeah, we're going to strive from screen. what we need to do is to start from scratch because that's what I wanted to do the last time I moved. I'll tell you that.

Oh yeah. Well, what happened to your stuff? I wanted to throw everything in the middle of the cul-de-sac and light it on fire, man. Just let it go. And I still do. I opened up both garage doors this weekend. And I thought, man, a match and I'm good. A match and I'm good.

But I didn't. So anyway, firefighters on the ground at Dubai International Air Base. A big Saudi jet landed on the country's National Day. Yay! And they wanted to give it a big salute with the fire hoses as the plane taxied under the runway and they shared up the fire hoses and they started watering over the aircraft. Then they had the big spray hoses so it arced over the aircraft. And then they were going to, as it got closer, they were going to drop the hoses down so it washed onto the airplane.

only one of the hoses could stop the monster spray it wouldn't shift it just continued to have the monster hard spray as it and instead of the guy handling the hose saying I can't change the pressure on this I'm just going to keep shooting it over the plane

now you know what no I'm supposed to drop it I'm supposed to drop it so I'm going to fire it shoot it on the plane what could go wrong oh I don't know the door breaks the aircraft is injured. People are freaking out. The doors, oh, after the doors break, then the emergency exit sliders come out.

It was amazing. No kidding. Ouch is right, man. Ouch is right. Now, we're looking into the technical problem with the hose. It should be an issue. The safety slide triggered a master alarm, alerting the flight crew to hold the planes. As a result, one patcher sitting next to the hatch of the window seat was injured, but not severely. If I'm sitting next to that thing, ouch. More than one. Ouch, out. Are you okay?

Ouch, ouch, ouch, out. This is the new Jeff Fisher, Dubai Airport. Ouch. You ain't lying. By the way, this is evidence of my theory. Third World Country should not get planes. Oh. But they're not. I mean, I'm sorry?

I still consider third world. Yes. If you're shooting, if you're shooting a fire hose, fireman hose at a freaking plane where the slides come out, yeah, you're third war country. And by the way, I thought that was a desert. Don't they have like no water? So what did that water come from? Well, all they have the fire trucks, man. It's not like they have fire hydrants along the runway.

That's what I'm saying. So where did the water come from? The fire trucks. And where did the water get into fire trucks? Where did that come from? I thought they had no water. From the faucet. And what did that water come from?

Back the truck up to the faucet and there you go. Duh. Plus this weekend, another big day in airline history. The strato launch, the largest airplane by wingspan ever to fly flew this weekend. Did you know that? No, I did. It took off in the California desert, stayed in the air for 2.5 hours, reached 189 miles an hour. but this thing is huge.

Was it going somewhere or was just flying for two out? It was just showing off. Just showing off. Just showing off. Just trying to see if it could fly. Okay. What did he fly? What was it around?

Over the desert and then back down. For two hours? Yeah. There's the brainshadow to Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft. And he wanted to build these planes so that they could launch rockets from the planes. That was their original plan,

is to build these big planes so that they would go up and then the rockets would launch from there. Yeah, like the 810s. Yeah. So it's got a 385 foot wing span longer than a football field. Comes with 28 wheels. 28 wheels?

6 747 engines. Two fuselages. And it weighs 1.3 million pounds. It's a big old boy. That's a big baby right there. Yeah, it's monstrous. Oh, monstrous. And then American Airlines, just on a side note of airplanes.

Just as long as we're talking airplanes. They extended its 737 max cancellations through mid-August. Don't worry about it. Nothing could happen. What could possibly go wrong? Another plane crash? No. No.

No, it could not. They grounded him across the world. They're still probing the crash. Hello. What do you mean? They're doing that too. Plenty of crime done wrong this weekend. Amazing.

An Oklahoma woman said she was trying to escape zombies. as she attempted to steal a commercial truck on Thank you. Yeah, definitely walking. So it begins. Now, the police said the driver of the truck carrying water bottles called police when the woman hopped into his truck while it was unattended and locked the doors.

The keys were in the truck parked at a Walmart. Of course, she just happened to be shopping at a Walmart. This happened. She said she got there and she refused to unlock the door to get out. get out everything's fine there's no zombies get out of the truck no the zombies are coming we've got to be i got to be saved so the uh police officer broke the window out and drug her out of the truck it's drag her i know i know now apparently she's known uh police said that they've had multiple run-ins with uh miss billings in the past so she's a tongue crazy yeah in February police said

she committed a similar crime at another Walmart. She likes a Walmart. Yeah, she hopped into a guy's car and drove off and somebody stopped her before she could get out of the parking lot. More zombies? She's also been arrested on suspicion of arson in 2014 when she reportedly admitted to police. Yeah, I tried to light my boyfriend on fire. He was in the house.

Check her passport. Is she been to Paris? Don't make, that's not funny. What does you mean? The fire's almost out now. Oh, so she failed. If you're following along live, the fire's almost out. Don't.

Don't. Now, this lady was in Oklahoma thinking that zombies are coming, but of course, so we have Florida stories where a man is behind bars now. Thank God. I feel safer. Do you? You're going to feel safer too when you know why he's behind bars, all right? He's behind bars for threatening to destroy everyone.

Thomas Devaney. Thomas Devaney Lane, 61 of Brevard County, faces multiple charges of breaching the piece, misusing 911, and resisting an officer without violence. Oh, hell no. Resisted an officer without violence? Is that when you say, no, I don't arrest me?

Come on. Come on, that's stupid. Brevard. That's stupid. Brevard County. What are you doing? Now, the police received seven calls about a man disturbing the piece at a Starbucks,

a Saffanista Cafe, sassy granny, smoothies. I mean, the guy's just walking down the street. Another crazy guy. Just hollering at people. And plus, that ticks me off that he, resisting an officer without violence. Stop it. But this is where you find out how safe you are now, though.

Okay? Because he was taking the police department and he was forcibly removed and arrested from his car. But he threatened to destroy everyone with his army of turtles. Guilty, go to, go to, go to, go to, go to, go. I'm sorry, I didn't hear that right. No, no, no. He threatened to destroy everyone with his army of turtles. Right.

So now that he's in jail, we're safe. We are safe. There's no army of turrets. What kind of turtles are we talking about sea turtles, snapping turtles, tortoises? You can keep naming them. It doesn't say. But I need to know. Because if I, like, can I raise an army of turtles?

Is that illegal? Where do I cross the line of being evil? illegal. When I threaten someone with it? Yes. You can have the Army of Turtles. You just can't threaten people with it. Huh.

And you don't. When police say, we're going to arrest you. You can't say no. Can't say no? That's resisting without violence. Huh. Okay. That's just agonizing.

Another story out of Florida. A large flightless bird native to Australia. The things are going to hell in a handbasket in Florida. What is coming? Army of turtles. Army of turtles and now we've got this flightless bird This giant bird

If he can't fly How did he make it here From Australia? He walked He hitchhiked Oh hitchhiked yeah He hitchhiked on the cruise ships across the We got a couple of cruise ship stories today

We too Now apparently this man Was in the vicinity of the bird Really? He was in the vicinity of the bird When he fell All right well first of all if you're in the vicinity of this big ass bird.

You can't fall. Don't fall. You cannot fall. What are you doing? What are you doing, man? It's like, drastic parks. And the bird's like, uh, attack. Okay, I'm supposed to.

Did he fall peacefully? I don't know. Because it's a tragic accident, though. Is it? So the, the cassowary is the name of the bird. The cassowary, according to the San Diego Zoo's website, the world's most dangerous bird. Why did this guy have one of those? He's got a four-inch dagger-like claw on each foot.

A dinosaur. It can slice open any predator with potential threat with a single swift kick. It can run up to 31 miles an hour. It can run through dense forest and underbrush. Why are we not shooting these things right now? Is it a protected animal? Florida should have these bad boys. They should have a hunt license on these.

Is it a protected animal? Casawares are eaten in parts of New Guinea. soon in Florida. In Broward County, right? Sawed after by collectors of exotic birds. Yeah, so this guy's thinking he's got this by exotic bird. I'm going to make a fortune fall down dead.

No retro. So to obtain a mandatory permit, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commerce Commission requires Cassowary owners to have a substantial experience and meet specific cage required. Yeah, like a cage that won't open. He said the commission lists the cassowary is a type of

wildlife that can pose a danger to people. You think? Oh, we got to get rid of these. We have to start a thing against, you know, PETA wants these things to survive. You know, they do. We need to start a PSA to these cassoiris need to be killed. They need to be killed. I mean, they are at danger to humans.

They've already killed one human. Taste of blood. Now, right, this bird, why is this bird still alive? Any animal that kills a human goes down. Automatically dead. Dead. We'll check it out.

It could be rabid. It could be a rabid cassow. Could the flightless bird get rabies? Tamanella. All right. Is that a cassowary? By the time that gunshot went off, the cassowary had already clawed you to death.

That's how long it took the fire of that shot. You've got to be ready, man. You got to be, is that a cassowary? Yeah, you got to put that thing down. You cannot wait around. Otherwise, you get that clawed your back. You're gone. That's not even funny.

I mean, I'm sorry that the guy, they rushed the guy to the hospital and that he didn't survive. I mean, those things are dangerous. They should not be allowed in the United States of America. We've got to, we've got to stop this. The horrors of Casillas. Yes, the horrors of Cassettes. They're going to want it left in the country, though. Sad.

Sad. We got a guy in California killing 150 protected birds. Then let get him in Florida. Why isn't he killing cassoiris? We need to get him to Florida. A Northern California man has been sentenced to 90 days in jail. Only 90 days? He pleaded, after pleading guilty to killing more than 150 protected birds and other wildlife, 90 days of jail.

It's like the bears. Yeah, they didn't get to jail. Nothing. 90 days in jail, killing 150 birds? That's nothing. He'll do it again. So 68, well, he's 68 years old. Richard Parker also.

Oh, no, don't give me that he's too old to be in jail. He also agreed to pay $75,000 in fines. Holy cow. The officer's investigating Parker received a tip by someone who saw a man kill a hawk. Snitch. Right. This is when the old man needs to have his pet cassowary. Yeah, but no, though.

I mean, you're the one that told the police sobby? Sick him. Send the cassowary after him. That's what you need is the pet cassowary. Man. Those are like the... Youngyard dogs. Yes.

Forget cockfighting, man. We need to castorari fighting, man. We need to get these bad boys. Bet on these bad boys. Just joking. Just joking. Well, they're what? Six feet, 130 pounds?

Yes. Yeah. I'll bet on him. Those are huge animals. Dangerous. So when they searched the Parker's property, the band of California, they found 159 dead animals. most of them red-tailed hawks,

but also two bobcats and a mountain lion. Okay. Next. And how we not had stories about mountain lions attacking, little people? Yes. Those are probably not the ones that you get around. The bobcat's fine. Mountain lion's fine.

It's the, I don't know, the 150 red-tailed hawks that's a problem. Oh, okay, okay. Probably can't shoot those. Those are protected animals. Should have had castoraries. Imagine that fight. The Hawks versus the Casabaries? Ooh.

Well, the Casabaries might not put up a big fight, but the Casaberi would put up a good fight. I knew I said it wrong. Let's go to the break room. I need a drink anyway. All right, so I go to the break room, and I told you before, I go out to the break room,

and all I see is people wandered around this building. lost and know what to do. I look up and hey there's Chad Roeshaw. Who? Who? Wondering around a building. His hands are in his pocket. He's like, hey, you know, what's going on? I just was looking for some place to sit down. So I brought him into the break room, sat down. Chad, how are you good to see you again? I'm good. Thanks for me in. Good. Thank you getting me in. No problem. I got a chair for you in the break room. No problem. It's easy to do. So you're making the rounds and you're wandering around. What's happening in your life? What's going on? What's the biggest news in Chad Robeshael lies?

So much. I mean, biggest news is the work at Mighty Oaks. You know, We can continue to serve our warriors. Just come back from Germany, speaking in Marine Forces, Europe and Africa, on resiliency and spiritual resiliency, just helping equip our warriors for the job they're going to do and defense to our nation. I heard you talk to Pat Gray this morning. Yeah. And you mentioned that your son is now in Afghanistan.

Yes. And that has got to be a turnaround for you on the way to look at things. I mean, I think about like in 2003 it was my first deployment. and I remember landing in Balgram Air Base on a C-130 and two days ago he landed at Boggram Air Base in a C-130 and I'm thinking like, how could this happen? You know, eight deployments for me and I would never

thought the ninth deployment for my family would be my son. All these years, 20 years at a nation at war, I would have never thought my son would be deploying there. And I'll tell you, from my experience and in the experience, what I do at Mighty Oaks serving warriors who are struggling and been wounded and lost friends and all these things, it's been very hard for me. I have a lot of confidence in him, though.

And not only his, you know, he's just such a strong and he has such a good relationship with God. And I just feel like he's, you know, even if he does to see or witness anything tough, he's going to be able to bounce back. You know, he's just a strong kid. Well, and look, and that's what you do at Mighty Oaks anyway, right? I mean, that's what you got involved in this

because you had that same reaction. Yeah. You came back and you had these problems dealing with dealing with all the things that you did and saw and were involved in. And you thought that, you know, you are Mr. Tough guy, right? Mr. military guy, you've been through it all. This is, this is, that shows a sign of weakness. I'm not a weak guy.

Right. So then you decided that you're going to go kick the crap out of people in the octagon, right? And you did that, but you still have these problems. Still had those problems that I fell in my face. You know, I almost got a divorce, you know, almost took my life. And, you know, it was rock bottom point in my life. when I faced, you know, not living anymore, not wanting to live anymore. And then come on the other side of that, you know,

it's been a, my whole life mission has been to help other people who have faced those same things and had those same struggles. And also equipped the younger, the next generation to be able to have these experience and serve our military and go to combat and built to do so in a more prepared way than I did. And so, yeah, my son is a recipient of that. And I feel pretty confident in him personally. Is it time to,

end it there and pull our troops out of there and be done with it. I personally think it is but yeah and I do too it's I mean come on it's been a long time now it's time we've trained up the A&A we've equipped them the A&A's the Afghan National Army we've equipped them it definitely it's time to do a handoff I do believe we need a permanent long-term presence there but you know having 14,000 troops there is is it's time to bring our troops home however what's our what's our what's our permanent presence. By saying that, you know, someone would say, well, it is our permanent presence with 14,000. I would say an advisory capacity.

An advisory capacity. I mean, we support, financially support a lot of foreign nations that can't provide the equipment. I mean, the charges. My son's attached to Georgians right now. I mean, the Georgians doesn't have the financial capability to have the right vehicles and equipment. So there's a lot of countries to support.

We could continue to support them in that way and give them advice and consulate and handle the deployments that way. However, where I'm stuck, and I think. where the president has been stuck and, you know, the Joint Chiefs have been stuck, is how do you do that in a way that we don't leave thousands of Afghans to fall prey to resurge of the Taliban? And so I think the transition has been a problem. And I almost care about that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's easy. It's really easy not to. And I'm in a unique position

because I lived with these people and I saw the tyranny they were under and the oppression they were under. And so I'm torn. I'm really torn. I don't want my son in Afghanistan right now. Like for what? When we leave eventually, it's going to, you know, I'm like, it's going to, you know, I'm like, it's going to crumble back. That's kind of one side of me. The other side is you see the oppression these people these people run there with the Taliban has done to them and like we but they've been under this oppression for a thousand years or more.

It is. So I'm a little torn. However, I do believe the United States military is an incredible job of training up the ANA, the Afghan National Army and they and right now they're doing a great job and so I believe it's at a time we have to start scaling back and I hope we will

And I hope, you know, I wish it could be like a bipartisan thing where everyone can come together, which, you know, in a kumbaya world, right? Everyone can come together and find the right plan. That would be nice. I'm not so optimistic that will happen. No, that would be. But I do believe it's time. I hope so. Yeah.

I hope that, I hope that something can be done, that's for sure. Having a son there really changed my, change the look. Enlightens the look a little bit? Yeah, yeah. It's really, really has changed it. Now, and really, I mean, he's more equipped than you. Yeah, I mean, I was a lot older when I went. So from my perspective of being trained to do my job, you know, I had more experience

and I had more life experience. And I was more, but from a perspective of being Ruzayat and I teach in the military or Zancy of being mentally tough, physically tough and spiritually tough and spiritually strong and having the right social network. Like, and I believe he's more equipped in that sense. He's more around that. He's more of a, he maybe not an older person, but he's more mature in that sense and more equipped to, I mean, he understands, you know, from a spiritual perspective, who

who he is, who he's created to be, and God's plan for his life. And I think that's a very important part of spiritual and overall resiliency and combat readiness. So with the Mighty Oaks Warrior Foundation, how many people are struggling with PTSD, with whatever you want to call it after they've come? We have so many soldiers come back and struggle, and yet so many feel, as you did, that it's a weakness so they don't get help. you reach out to them and say it's okay yeah i mean it's obviously been a big problem we have 23 million veterans in the country uh after 20 years of war many of them have have served in are we doing enough when they are we are we doing enough when they are we right from the beginning when they you know

when they when they when they first get out are we no then isn't that when we should say hey yeah uh you're not weak let's let's talk about this a little bit the transition process isn't good Even despite, and look, we got some great military leaders. You know, I'm very close to the current leadership in the Marine Corps, the Commandant General Neller and Sergeant Major Green. These are incredible men that really have done a lot for our warriors. The process is the military as a whole, though, is still missing. It has so many gaps in the transition. When guys transition out, they're not equipped or ready to, especially those who are struggling.

And we have a VA system that is not equipped to handle. I mean, you can blame the VA and I do a lot of times. I've seen the VA do some wonderful work. They've got some good people that work in the VA. I have seen some problems, but I've also seen some wonderful work from the VA. It's a huge organization with a lot of people they're trying to treat. And they're not equipped nor they'd have been staffed and trained to deal with, you know, 20 years of war. And so, I mean, that's a lot of problems.

I mean, last week we had three in a five-day period. We had three veterans killed themselves in VA facilities, 20 last year. in a VA facilities because they're so frustrated and the system's not working and failed. I mean, right here in Austin, I don't know if you know the guy walked out of a psychologist's office right in a waiting room in front of a couple hundred people

and he shot himself right in a VA clinic. I mean, so I mean, they have some problems over there and one of the problems they have hasn't really been funding because I think the president just did this executive order and there's a lot more money going but the programming is still all clinical and clinical

is important but it's not the only solution. And I think we need to go back to having holistic programs. In 2008, the Obama administration defunded, the Office of Faith-Based programs and alternative community programs, which were highly successful and shifted everything to clinical.

So still right now, if someone goes into VA, the only option they have from VA care is clinical treatment. And, you know, again, sometimes it's necessary, but it's not the only path. It's not the sole path to healing. For me, at Mighty Oaks, I mean, we believe in bringing the spirituality in

and helping people understand who they are, who they're created to be and making decisions in response to their trauma to align their lives with a purposeful life and a future. And not everyone has a wife like you had. I heard you tell a story once about what your wife told you when you were ready to give up on the marriage and the life that you had put together after you've put together, you know, a great life, but it wasn't enough for you at that time. And remind everyone what she.

Well, I mean, I had reached that rock bottom point in my life. we had just separated and so we were facing divorce we had sold our home uh signed two 12 month leases in apartments filed for divorce and my wife uh uh really had a different reaction to me she went in a church she started praying for me uh and really uh just really bringing herself out of the trauma that put her through and i was like in this apartment by myself i had a big fight on strike force uh at the toyota center on showtime and so like uh for me like when that fight was over even though it's like a really exciting moment in my professional fighting career.

When that fight was over, I went in this real depression, a depressed state. And I reached this point to where I realized, like, hey, my family might be sad without me, but they're going to be better off. And, you know, unfortunately, that's the same thought that finds a home in a bunch of 20 plus veterans every single day.

And that's what I believed. And so I was sitting in a closet and my pistol in my hand. I put my family pictures on the floor. And I was like, you know, I'm going to do this. And I had my, you know, I put my pistol to my head into my mouth and I'm trying to build up the courage to do this. And I realized that the person I would find me would be my son Hunter who wanted to

deploy to Afghanistan right now is he had the only key to my apartment. And that kind of delayed me. And then in one of these moments that I was doing this, my wife knocked on my door and confronted me. She didn't know what I was doing, but she asked me this question that just radically impacted my life. She asked me how I could do everything I did in the military to become a forced recombarine, which is very difficult.

And all the training that we do in the military to deployments to Afghanistan and then seeing me compete as athlete as a professional fighter, like cut weight and all the discipline it takes to do these things. She's like, how could you do all of that? And when it comes to your family, you'll quit. And that question for me, you know, it's a haunted question. You challenge me, right? I mean, there's no more probably so cutting word for me to be called the quitter. And she was absolutely right. I quit on, I've been successful professional things in my life in the military and as an athlete when it came to the most important things, being a husband, being a father, being a young, young 17-year-old kid that got chance to go into

military and escape a really rough childhood and have the second chance at life. I even quit my own health and my own will to live. And when she said that to me, I made a decision at a moment that I was going to turn things around and I did. And you obviously have. Yeah, I did. But it wasn't without the help of some very amazing people that stepped in my life and helped me get on the side of this and introduced me to the faith that I have today and a restoration in my family, finding hope for the first time and ultimately finding my purpose, which was to share what I discovered with so many others that are facing the same things that I faced. And that's through Mighty Oaks Foundation. So now you, Mr. Big Shot, not only, you know, you've hit the octagon and you were world class

there and you've hit the military and you're a word class there. Now you're going to be a big shot movie star. I don't think they can let me play in a movie. You're not going to play yourself? No, I think you'd have Kevin Hart play me. That's really funny. He'd be first. Perfect. So what's the idea behind the film? What are you doing? Well, you know, I've written several books in a book, An Unfair Advantage really captures my life story. And in the I Am Second video, have you seen the video of my testimony in I am second,

that made its way to some film producers at Liberty University. And they asked about to pitch my life story to some folks in Hollywood. And crazy enough, they're actually interested in there, wrote a script by a guy named Grant Thompson who Grant Thompson wrote McFarland USA. If you seen that movie, Kevin Kevin Kossner played in that movie. So they wrote a script and now it's being produced. So a film, life story films being produced. Nice. And terrifying. It's exciting, but terrifying.

You know, we were able to maintain a lot of control, but I really trusted folks. We've got one of the producers actually here with me today, Nate Bobbitt from L.D. Entertainment. They've made some great films. They did I Can Only Imagine, Risen. They did Zookeeper's Wife, The Gray. They made some Jackie. So you're a good company. Yeah, so I really trust the guys there.

I believe that script is written with some authenticity to my story. But most importantly, and this is. I hope it's got a little bit of cash so we can do some backstories and do some of that in the film that sometimes some movies aren't able to do if they don't have enough cash. No, I think it's very well funded. And, I mean, I could tell by the casting. They were going after some A-list actors. I mean, they haven't come to me, James. That's what I'm saying.

You know, I'm willing to play if I have to. You can jump in there, man. You know, one of the reasons I decided to do it, and General Boykin was a big part in that, because I was, my initial reaction was, no. You're not doing it. I don't want to do that. I don't want to do that.

I couldn't, I just didn't want to, you know, you don't want to, it's not about me. And I say that, like, really humbly, it wasn't, I didn't want it to be about me. And so I called General Boykin, and General Boykin's been a mentor. to me and he's on a board at Mighty Oaks. And he was, you know, featured in the film Black Hawk Down.

And so I called him and he gave me the perfect answer. He said, that's pretty arrogant of you even consider this because this film isn't about you. This is your story. It's God's story. And the only thing you have is a responsibility to make sure it's told right. And you go out, you know, go out and speak and try to reach veterans and share my story and talk about Mighty Oaks and get folks on a program.

He's like, this is an opportunity to reach warriors and get him into the program. And so I took his advice. And one of the things I got contractually in agreement was at the end of the movie, they'll be able to appoint warriors who are watching the movie to Mighty Oaks and the programs to get help and encourage those who are struggling to get help. So that's the motivation that I have. I think the movie is going to be well done and it would be really neat to see. Again, I'm a little terrified by it.

So is my wife. I'm looking forward to it. What I'm most looking forward to is seeing warriors reached that are throughout our country, who have served our country and needs. of a need of the solution to this problem. So if you're listening to this podcast and you know someone or are someone who needs help, how do they get a hold of you? Well, Mighty Oaks Programs.org is the website.

We have a pretty easy application, right? When you get to the homepage of Mighty Oaks Programs.org, there's a button on the left-hand side, it says apply. And for those who aren't veterans, they want to support that cause is a button on the top right-hand side that says donate. And I take, we've never had a warrior pay for our program. It costs about $2,500 to come through. and we've had ironically about 2,500 graduates from our program.

And on top of that, I've spoken to about 150,000 active duty troops on resiliency at bases around the world. And so all of our programs are free, including travel. So if you're a warrior interested, that can cost you anything. And we'll bring you out to one of our four amazing ranches, going to feed you good, make you fat, do some fun activities. But the most important thing is we're going to challenge you and give you some tools to build to move forward despite what you have been through in the past.

That's fantastic. All right, Chad, we've been in the break room long enough. It's good to see you. It's good to see you. It's good to see you again, right? Take care. We'll do the restroom next time. Absolutely.

All right, I know we hung out in the break room with Chad for quite a while, and we just hung out with Chad. Listen, he was wandering around the building. He does some great things with his project, so I wanted to talk to him for a little bit. And, you know, look, there's plenty of people that need help. And if you need help, get it. It's just that simple. You're not weak because. because you need help.

Get the help you need. Now let's get back to the real stories. I mean, the church is still burning. Church is almost down on the ground. I mean, I didn't think about, they've got all. We can't make fun of this. We can't.

What do you mean? I'm not making fun of it. People on social media can't make fun of it. But they tell me that can't make fun of it. I'm not. How dare you make fun of it? What do you mean you're making fun of it? I mean, you stated a fact in your first tweet, right?

Read your first tweet. I mean, you stated a fact. That's not making fun. Plus, now we've got fire people and rescue people are trying to get the artwork out. The scaffolding is folding. Spires are falling off. I mean, it's going to be millions of dollars worth of damages. I mean, hopefully the frame will still be there so you can just start again.

Yeah, so I put, I don't think that's how you choose a new pope. Asking a question. You're right, Chris. That's not how you choose it. It's not the correct smile. I don't know what's wrong with that. Donald Trump said, hey, dump some buckets of water from airplanes on it. Which I'm like, hello, what do you think of that?

I mean, I think that should be happening already. A helicopter should be flying over and dropping buckets of water on that bad boy already. The little thing just fell down. That's really sad. I know. That's really sad. I know. So I'm just, you know, there's nothing to make, not making fun of it.

We're just giving you some live reporting during the podcast today as we record it. The church is, there's going to be news everywhere. I mean, Notre Dame was going down. Quote from a Notre Dame spokesman, the entire church is burning down. The whole thing is burning. Entire thing is burning down. The whole thing is burning.

See? Okay. All right. All right. The name of the father and son of the Holy Ghost. It's funny because one person put here to other people are telling me that, you know, it's in poor taste. He goes, Dan Harry writes,

Hi, I'm a Roman Catholic here. God gave us the ability to laugh to deal with the harsh aspects of life. Also, in the past, there were popes and anti-popes, based on France, so it's funny. It's better to laugh than to break down in tears. Thank you. Thank you.

Can we not even tell a joke anymore? I guess not. You know, there's a girl, a Vermont girl, that is mad at Saturday Night Live for telling a joke. Now, I know you're going to say yourself, wait, Saturday Night Live told a joke.

joke. I know. That's rare. It is. And these days it is, that's for sure. Was it a Trump joke? But no. Oh my gosh. I know. It was a joke joke. So a chicken named Granite Hart is learning to walk with a custom wheelchair. Now, I know you're going to ask yourself, wait. Why did the chicken cross the street?

Get to the wheelchair, but it couldn't walk. Well, how could it get across the road? Anyway, this is what happens when the chicken tried to cross the road. Thank you. That got run down. So anyway, The weekend update said apparently in their weekend update on SNL that why don't they just eat the chicken? Duh.

That chicken should have been eating a long time ago, man. So a little 10-year-old Laura Wood of Underhill Vermont. She knows the segment was meant to be a joke. Do you? And it from Vermont from Bernie Sanders State? But says, what if it was a dog? Okay. It's not a dog.

a chicken. We here in America think it's okay to eat chickens. We frown upon eating dogs. However, when we get hungry enough, and if we fed our dogs the right dog food, it will be time to eat the dogs too. Why? Thank you.

Why? Because we're human. We're at the top. Animals. Bottom. Sure we like some of them. Of course. Sure we do. And we decide, you know what, I like those, we're not going to eat those. But if it comes down to me, boy, I'm really hungry and there is no food.

Fido's going down. Okay? It's just that simple. And I speak to eating food. I don't know why this doesn't happen in a city that I live in, but residents in a neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi are confused because bowls of mashed potatoes are showing up everywhere. apparently they're showing up on their cars, on their porches, on their mailboxes, bowls of mashed potatoes. Wait, what?

I know. Okay, so resident Jordan Lewis said, hey, look, I know our neighborhood is quirky. We decorate road signs. We decorate road signs and we put Christmas trees in potholes, but we just don't know what the kind of prank it is when people are leaving bowls of mashed potatoes around. You eat it. Thank you. There's no pranking.

Some people are thinking maybe the mashed potatoes were poisoned to kill animals. Why don't you eat it and find out? And I'm sorry, if you use your mashed potatoes to kill animals, you're doing it wrong. It's either ham or peanut butter. Yeah, animals are not going to eat. Animals are like, those are mashed potatoes. No, that's human food. That's boozy, yes.

Yeah, yes. So I don't know why. I don't know what kind of joke is leaving around bowls of mashed potatoes, but. We need to make a travel trip. Or the potatoes need to make a travel tip to my neighborhood. No problem. I'll let you know if they're poisoned. No, those aren't good.

Okay, don't eat them. Oh, how did Jeffrey die? Well, a mashed potato bowl came to his door. Someone dropped off mashed potatoes around the neighborhood. Wow. Why do I not have one of these devices on my automobile? License plate flipper. Think about it.

Why do I not have a license plate? Flipper. Now sure. Sure they're illegal in the state of Texas. Oh, they are? Yeah. Oh. Yeah, sure they are. But I can still buy them from licenseplateflipper.com or actually the website is Yeah, licenseplateflipper.com. Oh, so if I can buy it legally, I can use it. Hey, just a disclaimer from

licensflipper.com. Oh, I hate those disclaimers. Licensplateflipper.com on the homepage. Improper installation of the product may result in car damage. When purchasing our product, you take full responsibility for all liabilities associated with the use or misuse of our product. Check your local laws and regulations before using this product. The product is great for use in car shows, advertisements, or as a novelty, vanity, and many more purposeful uses. We discourage the use of our products to avoid red light camera, beating red light cameras, or avoiding toll booths or toll cameras.

Which is what the Texas driver was doing. He owed about almost $6,000 worth of. Wow. Almost $5,473 worth of tolls. Now, This guy had already been down 5,000. They already told him, look, you can't take toll rolls anymore. All right.

They didn't even bust them on this. I'm sorry. You can't tell me and cannot be on the toll roads. Yeah, they can. Can they? Pay your bill. Pay your bill. If we catch you on the toll roads again, you're going down.

They just bomb you. You just die. Texas sends out the helicopters. You think they're waiting for helicopters on the church in France? No. Texas just fends out. That's all they do. Yeah, we just got word.

We find another car driving on the toll road, but not supposed to drive it on the toll road. He owes us money. We're going to catch up on this. The white Toyota Camry is doing about 75 right now. Head to eastbound on Toll Road, 185. I'm going to go ahead and drop a rock on them. Okay, we don't have the white camera to worry about it anymore. We're going to set a cleanup crew.

Traffic's going to start backing up a little bit of us soon. And that's what we're doing. That's what we're going to start doing in Texas, man. So dropping rocks on them, man, or shooting them. You know, the rock drops and then a gun goes off. Either way. So this guy owes, he was owed over $5,400 on toll roads. I mean, that's doing some distance now.

They're like 15 cents, 17 cents, no, see, that's where you're mistaken. No, my friend. They're a little bit more than that. Plus, where are you going? The new toll road, the new toll automatic withdrawal. 40 bucks. Did you see that? Yes, they just changed that.

He was 20. It was 20. It was 20. It's like it's 40. That's why? I don't know, but I don't like it. That is very, yes.

It says one thing. I'm like, I'm okay with, you know, having the 20. Yeah. And now the next thing you know, 40,

that means prices are going up. That's what that means. Really? That means. Yes. That means prices are going up. That's what that means. So anyway,

there's a license play flipper. Why do not have this on my car? I don't know. Because you go to jail the first time you use it. Boop, they got to catch you. So this guy, they got caught and said, hey, you can't drive on the toll roads anymore. So then he gets pulled over.

And the, well, I mean, the cop just notices, is that a license plate flipper you've got in your car? Well, they're pretty noticeable because they're, yes, they're, you could see that that it's not a normal license plate holder. Yeah, you can't actually. They're not that, you know, incognito like James Bonney. What's the back of your car? I don't know. It's okay in that way, officer. Let's get your hands off the back of my license plate.

Open up the truck. Let's see this thing bad boy. No, thanks. my trunk stuck been stuck for i don't know two years now since i bought it yeah i can't who i wish i could for you sir but i can't i'm just going to go now okay no no problem make it easy so the thing is all right so it really isn't that big of a fine right okay so first violation for a license plate five hundred bucks repeat offender gets a class b misdemeanor which can carry up to two thousand dollar penalties and 180 days behind bars come on see i think once you get a class

b you cannot carry a concealed weapon i think it's one of those i remember that from class so it's like is it really worth it what does that have to do with my license play flipper yeah but because you got a misdemeanor in there so you lose your but a class b yeah does that mean that's a way for them to take away my weapon license plate flippers i love to even in the story may be illegal, but they're readily available to purchase online. They're like $130. But they're good for car shows and everything else according to the website. I want one bad.

I want one just to have one. So when the officer starts walking up to your car, you just flip it. Here's the thing. You flip it to another license plate and then you'd be good. Yeah, you don't just make it disappear. Yeah, you don't just make it disappear. Right. But you're not good.

See, that's the whole thing. The little thing because then they take a picture of it. And the car. you're going to have to hope that the license plate that you took, oh, I'm sorry, that you found that you flipped to, is for the same type of car that's yours, right? Just get a paper plate. Just pay.

Here's an idea. Pay for your tolls or don't take the toll of road. It's just a thought on my part, okay? Just a thought. I love this story from Friday that Michael Avanetti, the former attorney for Stormy Daniels and Mr. Hater of Donald Trump and was on television forever

over and over. 36 counts. 36 counts that he gets charged with. Amazing. Amazing. Of what? Thirty six counts of what?

Okay, so including one of the charges is embezzling from a paraplegic. So I'm going to go down the rest of the charges and then we'll get back to the paraplegic, which makes it just sound worse, right? It just makes it, it does make it say. Is there something worse than embezzling? from a paraplegic?

I guess. Now, he says, look, any claim that any money is due clients are mishandled is nonsense. A bogus nonsense, to be exact. By the way, a way of example, there are many, here's a document signed less than a month ago attesting to my ethics, and he's claiming he's not guilty.

He's going to fight all these charges. That's it. So he got 19 tax-related charges. Accusations, he has not filed personal income tax return since 2000. didn't file some tax returns for his two law firms. He's also accused of failing to pay more than $3 million in payroll taxes while he was the owner of Global Waristas U.S. LLC, which operated Telly's Coffee, which operated Telly's Coffee, he allegedly attempted to obstruct the IRS efforts to collect the taxes by lying and directing funds from credit card transactions at Telly's coffee shops to new bank accounts.

The two bank fraud charges against how many alleged he secured bank loans by submitting tax returns that he had never been filed and by claiming that the Egan Avanetti law firm had $508,200 an operating account when it only had little more than $43,000. He's also charged with four counts of bankruptcy fraud for allegedly failing to report all of Egan Avanetti's accounts receivable under penalty of perjury and falsely testifying under oath during a bankruptcy hearing by denying the firm had received more than $1.3 million in fees.

I mean, this guy is doomed. Good luck. I have a... Good luck, God bless. I think Michael Vanetti needs to call these people. I don't know, but I think... Jake was in big trouble with... The IRS. He owed how much? $92,000.

Ouch. The IRS left no room for Jake to breathe. He owed a little bit more than $92,000. Okay, but still. But they put a lien on his account? Yes, they did. They needed help. Now, with his, with his, my, makes it sound so bad.

With his, with his embezzling from a paraplegic, his embezzling from a paraplegic, I mean, his embezzling from a paraplegic. I mean, his embezzling from a paraplegic. something maybe the law and order something maybe it's just a peripelgic like what more do you want

want to treat this person differently so what happened was what they're claiming is happen is that he alleged correct allegedly okay so this is still going on is that the paraplegic got a settlement got a deal right and all that money

went into an account that was overseen by Michael and so Michael didn't give many of it and the the paraplegia would come to Michael going, hey, man, I need some money, I got to pay rent, I got to do this. So Michael would give him like a couple thousand. Here you go. I can't get the, that's smart.

I can't get the rest of it right now. It's tied up. One thing, I didn't get the full account. They've got it shipped here. But here's just a couple thousand. Go take care of yourself. Here's what you need. But I can't get the rest of it.

And he just kept doling it out like that every time the guy came around begging for money. So he had the, it was a lot of money that he had stashed. It just sounds so bad. It's embezzling from a paraplegia. You know what? Embezzling is bad too. Whether you're a paraplegic or not. It's just,

we can just go with that? Let's go with that. Also, over the weekend, Elon Musk warns us that AI could create an immortal dictator from which we could never escape. Elon. Go back on Joe Rogan, man. All right, take it easy. We need that do, be.

He'll be all right. Fired up. Because didn't he think, you know, AI could, create an immortal dictator. This does really good. An immortal dictator. Who would we could ever escape? I'm telling you, man.

Hold it. Hold it. I just think that... I've been this high along. I just think we couldn't trust the computer. That's all. You got some chips or anything? So, okay, so I'm worried about AI, but then I read where scientists in southern China

have reported that they've tried to narrow the evolutionary gap by creating several transgenic monkeys yeah I know so what they're doing is they're modifying the monkeys that's all they're just modifying them don't worry about it

they're just putting human human brains into the monkeys what could possibly go wrong. Have we not seen the documentaries? Have we not seen what happens? Planets of the Apes. Thank you.

And I mean, even from the very beginning to the end of the Planet of the Apes, I mean, you see what happens. It's just time to maybe take it easy, Chinese scientists. I don't know how you stop them. I don't know what you do. But I don't think that we want, is that a monkey? I am not a monkey.

You don't want to when the monkeys start talking. Get your hands off of me, you filthy ape. I mean, we're doomed, right? We're doomed. We're doomed. Hey, happy Monday. Thanks for listening to Chewing the Fat. Be sure to subscribe.

Be sure to rate. Be sure to review. And we'll be good. Just subscribe to the podcast. On Mondays, you get two. You're welcome. We just started today with a new part of my talking series, which I teased a little bit,

but we got Talking Thrones today with Jason Buttrill and Amber Fisher. Yeah, I know my wife. I let her in. I let her in. She just showed up. When was the last time you did this? I'm sorry?

When was the last time you did this? Did what? Your wife be on the podcast or a radio show? It's been a while. Quite a while. We did a Valentine's Day thing a while ago, and then we did a couple of it. She's been out.

I mean, she's fine. She's great. And I don't know what you're trying to allude to, Chris. But subscribe and go ahead. Just here's what you do. All right. I know that you're busy and everything, but just when you have to rate and review,

just rate at 20 stars, review it best podcast ever. And then when you're done with that, you just want to share it with your friends. And they don't even have to be with your friends that you share it. Just share it. Just click share.

And first name that pops up in your email address. thinking of you, send off the podcast. That'd be great. But I really do need your subscriptions because, well, I need them. I need your help. Need the subscriptions. Plus, your new segment Talking Series sounds like a fantastic idea. I know.

Talking Thrones. I know. It's exciting, man. I could talk. We talked for a good 35 minutes or so this morning, reviewing last night. It was great. we've got another this season's going to be tremendous

it was really good and for those of you that haven't watched any of any of Game of Thrones I mean you just listen you can have spoilers whatever it's well worth it it's so good if you want to get caught up binge it I mean there's only seven seasons

only seven seasons get over yourself you can get through that's a lot you get through that in a couple what a week no couple weeks anyway yeah maybe three I mean I think I got I'm trying to think how long. I mean, it took me a while to get through him.

Because, I mean, I didn't watch anything else, and it was a couple of weeks for sure. I mean, I binged him hard. And then my wife decided to binge him. So I got to, I sat through and watched some of the other favorite episodes as she was watching it. Yeah. Well, this is a good episode I sat down watching it again.

Because I think I stopped by season three, but I think I have to start earlier from the beginning to remember the characters. It's really, it's worth it. Yeah, because I think I remember season three, something about a wall and Donald Trump being president. Yeah, stop talking. talking.

But there's a lot. Just stop. Stop talking. I mean, don't even, you're embarrassing to yourself. You're embarrassing other people that watch the show. I don't want you to do that to yourself. Isn't that guy known Snow White? Is there a...

Is there not? I think someone's named Snow White. Okay, here, let me need to rephrase what I... Turn your microphone off. That way you could continue to talk, but we don't have to hear it. See how that works?